The fact that that our future nurse was on the honor roll means that she is intellegent. I believe the reason she cannot pass the english is that she has been taught that english literacy is not needed for sucess. Where did she learn this – our schools (I live in California).

The judge is strangely right – Our schools are unequal because while the students have every opportunity to learn english, we have been teaching students that it is not important. This parallels the larger immigration problem, where we are telling (via our inaction) that it is ok to come to this country without learning english and without assimilating.

Something about this doesn’t make sense. Someone with a 3.64 GPA takes the test as a sophomore, fails, takes the test twice, fails twice, takes the test three times as a senior, and fails three times?

What makes sense to me is that either she is very stubborn about her belief that people should not need to learn english to get a diploma, or this is a legal setup from the start, and the plan was to get a smart and attractive subject to build a lawsuit around.

.. But to mandate including in school textbooks specific incidences of one sexual orientated group contributions does not seem right.

Shouldn’t you show that you have a basic understanding of what you are teaching fresh young minds?

About a year ago one Massachusetts community breathed a sigh of relief when a school administrator passed the High School Equivalency test of English — on his fourth try.

“I feel very happy” she said later in Spanish. “Now I’ll be able to have my diploma and fulfill my desire to become a nurse.”

Scary!

Remind me not to get health care where she is working.

Is she going to sue to get the degree in college too when she can’t even pass basic math or english / writing skills?

If you cannot pass a simple math or english test of the basic level, you have no reason to be graduating. Graduation means you have learned what they have taught you, and have become profecient enough with the skills to graduate. If you cannot pass the required tests, you should not be graduating, plain and simple.

File this under another reason to home school, better education (if you actually do it), and more one-on-one time with your child where he/she doesn’t have to compete with a classroom full of kids, stress of running between classes, bullies, teasing, and sexual advances by their teachers or other students.

It is all about what you want in the education of your child, and more and more I am seeing the public schools becoming a bastion for the leftists screed, the gay agenda (CA just had a vote ot put gay and lesbian documentation and achievements in school textbooks). The more I see and hear about this, the more I see the public school systems, and more of the colleges and universities becoming brainwashing tools for the left.

Make sense, if you want people on your side, to vote for you, then you brainwash their children.

Not a big fan of Michael Savage, but he essentially hit it on he head when he said he used to be a bleeding heart liberal when he was younger, (teens and 20’s) but then he grew up when he got to around 30 he became a staunch conservative.

When you look at liberals, the majority of the screeching angry types, what age bracket do you normally see them in?

The majority of conservative, what ages do you normally see them in?

It is interesting when you start doing comparisons…..

/sarcasm

Ah, that means it evaluates them on the basic, minimal skills necessary to hold a bottom rung job, and they can’t even pass that…what does that say for their ability to survive in the real world? Not to worry, there’s always welfare and food stamps paid for with our tax dollars.

Wouldn’t the average, non-ideologically blinded person think that the skills necessary to get and hold a job are “realistic educational goals?”

I suspect that Karl, like many others, sees the purpose of the schools, you know, the “realistic educational goals,” to be to indoctrinate them to the liberal/socialist mindset, and leave them lacking in job skills, so that they will forever be dependent on the state and are willing lemmings that automatically vote Democrat

Yeah, I know there are many teachers, and possibly even a few administrators, who don’t fit this description, but they’re not the ones setting the tone of the institution.

Problems with the law? Take it to the Supremes. File suit at the Supreme Court level! Any judge who decides to negate a law, for any reason, when he does not have the Constitutional power to do so, should be immediately impeached. No exceptions!

Enough of this type of Judicial Tyranny!

That should read “It depends on which side of the mouth they are speaking out of….”

The trouble is thatt the test was designed not by administrators and educators but by business leaders and other community people, so it is safe to assume it doesnt reflect realistic educational goals.

That said, rather then fix it and show some reasonable stadard of learning, the democrats here suggested eliminating the WASL as well as paying for 2 years of college for everyone out of tax payer money.

The governor here in one breath suggested funding a
program to help kids pass it and then signed into law a bill that effectively just gutted it by proposing alternatives to the WASL.

So the bottom line in Washington is HUH? I depends onwhichmout the speak out of.